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Friday, April 8, 2011

Not a whole lot of Red White and Blue atop the leader board after 1st round

As the sun set on first round at Augusta National there were of familiar things missing from the first page of the leader board, names like Mickelson, Woods, and Couples, but also colors of the American flag as the top four spots belonged to everyone else with the closest Yankee being the unfamiliar Matt Kuchar in 5th. Rory McIlroy and Alvaro Quiros shot an impressive -7 to take a two-stroke lead into the second round. The South Korean contingent of Yang and Choi occupy places three and four at five-under. Of course the names everyone really paid to see have not managed to work their way into contention just yet with Lefty (-2), Woods (-1) , Couples (-1) , and Cink(-1) all have some serious work to do. Woods doesn’t appear to have the consistency off the Tee to keep out of trouble and if he can’ttake advantage of the Par-five’s then it’s going to be a long weekend for him. Mickelson has shown some flashes and day two will be all important for him to get into that top 5 where he is so tough to catch from behind.